1759 COLONIAL LAND DEED CONNECTICUT NATHANIEL GUNN, EBENEZER SCOTT, THOMAS CLARK

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1759 COLONIAL LAND DEED OF WATERBURY (NEW HAVEN COUNTY) CONNECTICUT
Land described in the deed: BEDLAM HILL(described in the CT Roots Website below)
PRICE: 11 pounds
BETWEEN NATHANIEL GUNN (BUYER) & EBENEZER SCOTT(SELLER), THOMAS KLARK(RECORDER)
ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WERE PROMINENT CONNECTICUT CITIZENS
NATHANIEL GUNN (excerpt from CT Roots Website)This is what is said about him:  "Beginning with a single farm in 1733, it was augmented with the next adjoining in 1735, and from that time onward the holdings of the Gunns spread as with an irresistible force until they had taken possession of the region round about so completely that it might well be said that "they owned all that joined them." The Gunns evidently believed in the ancient system of landlord and tenant, leaving no place for miller, blacksmith, farmer or laborer that was not owned by a Gunn. They had a few neighbors like themselves -- wealthy, powerful and aristocratic after the fashion of the locality and time -- on whom they encroached not, except so far as to carve out a kingdom for themselves. They owned the ground the Gunntown church stood on so long as it remained and after the building was removed. Possessed of around three hundred acres almost at the start,
Nathaniel Gunn added over a hundred on Bedlam hill,
which continued in the family for several generations. Another hundred on the side of the Twelve Mile hill was added a little later, while the number of minor acquisitions became too numerous to mention. Gradually they gathered-in John Weed's farm, the Hawkins farm, and, with the acquisition of the Arah Ward lands, the Gunns reached to Derby line, having previously stepped beyond it and owned a farm at Red Oak. Finally, the Great hill near Naugatuck centre became Gunn hill, and the Isaiah Gunn place became an ancestral home of the Gunns, while the possessions of Enos Gunn extended to the river." There is an interesting piece of information in Wikipedia under the Gunntown Cemetery (considered haunted)
THOMAS KLARK - STOREKEEPER , TOWN TREASURER He was a first Waterbury slaveowner (from the fortunestory. org website)"The first enslaved African American in Waterbury is believed to have arrived sometime around 1730, when Deacon Thomas Clark, a storekeeper and the town clerk and town treasurer, purchased a young boy named Mingo and brought him to Waterbury. There were at least two other African Americans in Waterbury in the 1730s: Lewis and Filis are included in Capt. William Hickcox’s estate inventory of 1737"
Condition: shows age. Held by old tape in the back. See photos and ask any questions you have.